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Vacancy: Communications and Impact Assistant

Article dated: 15-Dec-15

We are seeking a web-savvy and enthusiastic Communications and Impact Assistant, to provide administrative support for the UK Data Service to reach and engage the social science data community to deliver real and measurable impact.

This role will provide you with an opportunity to build your knowledge
and experience in a broad range of communications-related skills,
including website management, event management, publicity and
communications. Working as part of a small but effective and friendly
cross-site team based at the UK Data Archive (part of the UK Data Service) your key responsibility
will be to support the delivery of the UK Data Service’s Communications
and Impact Strategy by carrying out important tasks such as maintaining
and uploading accurate content to the website, communicating with users,
assisting with managing publicity materials and running events.

We are looking for a motivated person with proven experience of working
with content management systems, proofing and uploading content to the
web, preferably covering the social sciences or IT. You should have a
good understanding of html and of basic editing of images for the web.
We require that the post holder has excellent attention to detail, good
organisational skills and is scrupulous in record keeping.

This is a part-time (0.6 FTE, 21.6 hour per week), fixed-term position
until 30 September 2017.

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